Github user sjcorbett commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-brooklyn/pull/97#issuecomment-50183893
More generally than this PR, I would be in favour of Rat only being active
when a particular Maven profile ("Pedantic"?) is activated. The profile would
be disabled by default but enabled on CI. All pull requests would have the
checks run but we avoid the annoyance of builds failing locally.
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